I use a material language to describe immaterial realities.

I do this in a holistic way that integrates my studio practice and my life - waking and dreaming, banal and spiritual. Each project is expressed with specific mediums and processes, but I am consistently drawn to physical materials. In a world suffocating with objects, I believe that by mindfully contemplating the nature of matter and its interactions, we might find deeper ways to connect to essential life forces.

The way I see “stuff” is a sort of animism: I believe that all collections of matter have a capacity for life, personality, and can speak through arrangement, balance and context. The messages are there for all of us to see but they often need translating, so I use my experiences as an architect, carpenter and auto mechanic to speak the language of systems in a variety of dialects. As something leans, pulls or fastens, it describes an attitude or maybe a part of a story. Situations can also influence the meaning of a thing, and I explore all possible situations to draw intellectual and emotional connections between the inanimate and those of us who are animated.


I was born and raised in New York City, studied philosophy and architecture in college, and have crossed Turtle Island by car, train, or bicycle at least 7 times. I have attended residencies at the VT studio center, ACRE, This Will Take Time, SomoS, and BoxoPROJECTS, among others, and have shown my work across the US and in Europe, at AA|LA, BUOY, Space Gallery, Roman Susan, the Lust Gallery, 2C, and the Bronx Museum, among others. I teach at Skidmore College, am a member of 7 Count, and currently live and work.




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* New York, NY, 1988 
BA - Wesleyan University, 2010

Solo and duo exhibitions
2019   Coincidence Control - Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, VT
2018   Friendmaking - SomoS Arts, Berlin, Germany
2017   Thus Far Gone - 2C, an in-home gallery, New York, NY
           1 Buy 1 Get Free - SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME
           Will Have Been - AA | LA, Los Angeles, CA
2016   This Was the Future - St. Michael's College, Colchester, VT
2015   Float - Keene State College gallery, Keene, NH
           Extracted from Nature - Salem Art Works, Salem, NY
2014   Prototype - Buoy Gallery, Kittery, ME
           Humors - Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT
2010   Dormant - Ezra and Cecille Zilkha Gallery, Middletown, CT

Group exhibitions
2021   Land Chapters - Artist Field, Richmond, VT
2020  At, For, By, Of, About - Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2019   Paradise : Parallax - Boxo Projects, Joshua Tree, CA
           Streetlight, Revisited - Roman Susan and Wedge Projects, Chicago, IL
2018   Reading Room - Public Access Press, Omaha, NE
           From Away - Overnight Projects, South Hero, VT
           Feverish World - UVM, Burlington, VT
2017   Downloading #vaporfolk - BV:BKV, Bregrenz, Austria
           Now Then, - Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
           Property - Roman Susan, Chicago, IL
2016   Things Themselves - Vernon Gardens, Los Angeles, CA
           Signs Point to Yes - Sage Street Mill, Bennington, VT
           A World Where Flowers Mean Something - ACRE Projects, Chicago, IL
           Streetlight - Roman Susan, Chicago, IL
2015   #vaporfolk #hollyvvoodoo - The Lust Gallery, Vienna, Austria
            Memory Work - Carving Studio & Sculpture Center, Rutland, VT
            Spring Benefit - Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
2014   Of Land and Local - BCA Center, Burlington, VT
2012   Viewers Like You - BF Bifocals, New York, NY
2009  Intersections - Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY

Architecture projects
2019-   Oak Street - Single family residence, Troy, NY 
2014    Corn Crib - Landscape interpretation space, N. Bennington, VT
2009    Live Wired - Urban plan for the Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY
            Bundalow -  Schuylkill Education Center, PA
            Splitframe - Audubon bird-viewing platform, Portland, CT 

Interactive sound installations with/as Seven Count
2020    (re)Sounding, Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT
2019    After the Tone, Lake George Arts Center, Lake George, NY
2018    Blobfest - Community Arts Phoenixville, Phoenixville, PA
2017    Request Line - Buoy Gallery, Kittery, ME
            Invitation - Border Patrol, Portland, ME

Curatorial projects
2020    Medium Rare - Online exhibition
2019    Innerstates - Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2016    Connected Through the Land - PMcC House, Bennington, VT
2013    Sound Floor - Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY
2013    Listening - Farm Theater Projects, New York, NY

Residencies
2021    Artist Field - Shelburne, VT
2018    SomoS - Berlin, Germany
            Camphill Soltane - Phoenixville, PA
2017    This Will Take Time - Point Arena, CA
            Cooperstown Biennale - Cooperstown, NY
2016    BoxoPROJECTS - Joshua Tree, CA
2015    ACRE - Steuben, WI
2014    Virginia Center for the Creative Arts - Richmond, VA
2013    Vermont Studio Center - Johnson, VT  

Awards and grants
2018    VT Arts Council Development grant
2016    VT Humanities Council grant
2015    VT Arts Council Development grant
2014    Threshold: Official selection, VTIFF International film festival
2009    Live Wired: 3rd prize, Intersections competition
            Bundalow: Winner (1 of 7) Gimme Shelter competition
2010    SplitFrame: AIA Small Projects Award (honor)
2009    SplitFrame: Connecticut DEP Green Circle Award

Teaching and Lectures
2020    Assistant Professor, MDOCS, Skidmore College
            Guest critic, Syracuse University MFA
2019    Assistant Professor, MDOCS, Skidmore College
2016    Artist talk, Skidmore College
            Guest lecture, Bennington College
            Visiting artist, St. Michael's College
            Artist roundtable, Keene State College
2015   Guest lecture, Skidmore College
            Workshop, Artistic Technology Research
            Artist talk, Salem Art Works
            Visiting artist, Keene State College
2014   Artists talk with Ben Seretan, Flux Factory
            Guest lecture, Bennington College
            Artist talk, Pecha-Kucha, Burlington City Arts
            Artist talk, Green Mountain Academy

Publication
2021    Playing for Now - Risky Forager Records
2018    Request Line - Risky Forager Records
            "Cleverer Hans" in Mirror Mirrored - Gwarlingo Press
            Reading Room - Public Access Press 
2017    Seven Count and Invitation - Risky Forager Records             
            Figures - Self published
            Dream Journal, issue 1 - Self published
2015    Bushes of Bennington County - Self published
2014    "Ascertaining" - FRAME Journal
2013    “Build Thread" - BF Bifocals Zine 1
2010    "Return to Nothingness" - 3 Quarks Daily
2009    "Decked Out" - Landscape Architecture Magazine

Book fairs/festivals
2018    Overland Art Book Fair - w/Border Patrol
2017    Detroit art Book Fair - w/ Overnight Projects
            New England Art Book Fair - w/ Border Patrol
            Boston Art Book Fair - w/ Border Patrol

Permanent collections
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts - Richmond, VA
Bennington Museum - Bennington, VT
Various private collections

Press
“(re)Sounding at the Bennington Museum” Art New England, 3/2020
“Coincidence Control” Art New England 6/2019
"Will Have Been at AA|LA" Art and Cake 2/2017
"Things Themselves at Vernon Gardens" Contemporary Art Review LA 10/2016
"Make Some for Angus McCullough" Take Magazine 8/2016
"Artists to Watch" Take Magazine 1/2016
"Olitski and McCullough in NH" Artscope Magazine 11/2015
"The States Project" Lenscratch.com 10/2015  
"Memory Work" Seven Days VT 9/2015
“On Home Turf”  Gwarlingo 7/2014
"All About Everyday Things” The Berkshire Eagle 5/2014
Feature - Freunde Von Freunden blog 3/2014
"Smaller, Better, Stronger, Lighter" Architizer 7/2010  
"Grand Visions for a fade Bronx Boulevard" The NY Times 11/2009  
"Intersections" The Architectural Record 9/2009
"Grander than Ever" The Architect's Newspaper 8/2009  
"The Birds and the Beavers" Dwell Magazine 10/2009
"AR2: Work" The Architectural Record 1/2009